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Democrats i.e. centrists seem to be dead set on throwing gender issues such as trans rights under the bus right now. I’m not even sure what they stand for anymore.
Trans issues are cheap that’s why both corporate dems and GOP like to center on them .
Most people want to solve real issues - healthcare, social net, housing costs etc all of those require touching oligarchs and ofc dangerousThey aren’t that cheap. People are starting to figure out that if you’re not willing to stand up for some of us, you might not be willing to stand up for any one of us.
Either you stand for human rights or you don’t.
There’s a difference between
- Waving the trans flag every day
- Not waving it and supporting professionals to make the best decision
- Forcing nazi style cleansing.
One focuses on identity pol while, two meaningfully helps those in need without requiring every voter to be as learned about gender identity as you.
- facile strawman is facile
- number one does not preclude number two
- visibly supporting trans people provides the opportunity for others learn about gender issues
I also don’t care for your vaguely accusatory tone. If you have a problem with me as a person be explicit or shut the fuck up.
When did the Dems ever seriously champion these issues since the 90s? They have capitulated to corporate interests to pad their pockets every step of the way playing lip service to these problems they have no intention of solving.
30 fucking years late mate…
Neoliberals threw all that away in the 90s.
Obama could have saved the party in 08, but he abandoned it and assumed some other line wolf would just show up.
He didn’t understand the value of the Dem party, so when he got a chance to pick the sole person in charge of it, he just handed a bankrupt party to the neoliberals, so Hillary bought it and the 2016 primary for nothing while bankrupting most state parties for 9 years.
We fixed all that shit.
Billionaires just won’t let people say it on the media they own.
The reason progressives are winning all over isn’t that they’re suddenly popular, it’s just that the neoliberals aren’t sabatoging them anymore
You better be talking about the suits, not the voters
Obviously. That would make no sense
Why single out Democrats? That’s unfortunately much of America under oligarchs.
Doesn’t much matter, because at this point even a DSA sweep of the elections is unlikely to turn things around before the train wreck hits, leaving devastation everywhere. For which the DSA will then take the fall - something the Dems used to do before they fully committed to the dark side.
Republicans gained a ton in the same time period: the repeal of Roe, bans on labor rights, a variety of environmental deregulations, and even secret police disappearing people in the night.
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